He continued: "Bearing in mind the severity of the international attention now focusing on wanting credible intelligence information on this particular discovery, there is virtually no reasonable excuse for Google to not confirm the authenticity of the Cambodian aerospace vehicle that is within the Google Map database."

Google marks the object down as an Airbus, but Wilson believes this is a loose estimation.

Daily Star Online has approached Google, which says it will respond to the claims next week, for comment.

Flight MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014, during a handover between Malaysian and Vietnamese air-traffic controllers with the transponder shut down.

It was bound for Beijing after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysian Transport Ministry records show that air traffic controllers were told by Malaysian Airlines that is was in Cambodian airspace.

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MYSTERY: The plane measures around 70 metres

Hoh Chi Minh City controllers even sought confirmation that it was in Phnom Penh, east of Wilson's sighting.

But this was later judged to be incorrect.

Investigators believe it crashed into the Indian Ocean, and found debris allegedly from the plane off the coast of Indian Ocean island Reunion.

However, they concede they will never know until either the jet or black boxes are found.

Commenting on his findings, Wilson told us: "The Boeing 777-200 is 63.7m in length.

"Measuring the Google sighting you're looking at around 69 metres, but there looks to be a gap between the tail and the back of the plane.

"It's just slightly bigger, but there's a gap that would probably account for that."

He added: "I just thought I'd have a wander through. I work in digital video so I'm on Google Earth all the time.

"So I was on there, a few hours here, a few hours there. If you added it up I spent hours searching for places a plane could have gone down.

"And in the end, as you can see the place where the plane is. It is literally the greenest, darkest part you can see."